Mohegan Sun auction

[Dick W.]

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When I watch, I watch the webcast. I don't need to listen to useless drivel

[William F.]

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What year and color was the 400 hp car in question? I know a previous owner of one 400 hp car that was sold for around $60-65K. Wondering if that was the car in question.

[William F.]

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The 400 hp '67 I know about is maroon. Is this the 400 hp car referred to here?

[Richard S.]

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Yes, Steve and Mike kept referring to the non-OEM trim tag and VIN on this vehicle. It was indicated that the VIN had been verified but the not the trim tag.

[Roy S.]

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What they should have said had been verified was the secondary VIN, had the secondary VIN not been verifiable Barrett-Jackson would have pulled the car from the auction

[Gene M.]

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What they said had been verified was the secondary VIN had that not been verified Barrett-Jackson would have pulled the car from the auction.

Roy, Does BJ verify the trim as well as the vin tags on the vettes for authenic? If they do for vettes then they must put some kind of effort into the other cars too..........? Maybe not?

[Gene M.]

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And he still doesn't know crap about Corvettes.

A wider dirverse audience of a broad spectrum of different cars would differ greatly from your opinion of just Corvettes.

If Steve got too technical he would lose most of the audience including some Corvette guys.

[Jim D.]

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A wider dirverse audience of a broad spectrum of different cars would differ greatly from your opinion of just Corvettes.

If Steve got too technical he would lose most of the audience including some Corvette guys.

He lost me when he was pointing out that ALL dual inlet Holley carbs. were double pumpers even though they clearly showed they had vacuum secondaries. Either he's an idiot or his note writers are. That's just one of many examples of his infinite knowledge.

[Roy S.]

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Gene, yes for some cars not for all. They do Camaro, Chevelle, Nova, Ford, Oldsmobile, Pontiac and Mopar. Each to differing degrees as the knowledge base is not as good as it is on Corvette for the most part. (Speaking to trim/cowl tag only when I refer to knowledge base)

[Gene M.]

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He lost me when he was pointing out that ALL dual inlet Holley carbs. were double pumpers even though they clearly showed they had vacuum secondaries. Either he's an idiot or his note writers are. That's just one of many examples of his infinite knowledge.

Sounds as if he got his words crossed up. As Holley double pumpers are dual inlet would have made more sense. But not that dual feed requires it be a double pump. I actually missed the part showing as you say.

More substance in most everything else as opposed to something being “lovely”.

[Roy S.]

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He lost me when he was pointing out that ALL dual inlet Holley carbs. were double pumpers even though they clearly showed they had vacuum secondaries. Either he's an idiot or his note writers are. That's just one of many examples of his infinite knowledge.

Jim, Steve Magnante is the best in the business, its hard to get up there and talk about every car that crosses the block on live TV for five or six hours straight. If you think it isn't try it in your garage and see if you can do it for that long, on cars you have never seen and never make a mistake. Or listen to some of the others at other auction houses and see how many mistakes they make in the same time frame.

I guarantee you I have learned a lot from Steve about cars in general, including the fact that the cooling fins in the front wheels to cool the brakes of the Rebel race car were magnesium corvair cooling fans.

[Jim D.]

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Unlike Steve, I'm not a paid professional speaker so whether or not I could do his job is immaterial just as I'm sure he would be a complete failure trying to do mine. He may be the best in the business and know a lot, or a little about everything. My point was that he has limited knowledge regarding Corvettes and one would think that by using cheat notes, his info. would be more accurate. Last year at BJ, he was talking about a 1960 and correctly pointed out that it had a 230HP 283 which was the base engine. Then he pointed out that it also had the correct cast aluminum valve covers and chrome air cleaner, which I assume most would know is incorrect.
I do what DW posted above. Problem solved.

[Roy S.]

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Unlike Steve, I'm not a paid professional speaker so whether or not I could do his job is immaterial just as I'm sure he would be a complete failure trying to do mine. He may be the best in the business and know a lot, or a little about everything. My point was that he has limited knowledge regarding Corvettes and one would think that by using cheat notes, his info. would be more accurate. Last year at BJ, he was talking about a 1960 and correctly pointed out that it had a 230HP 283 which was the base engine. Then he pointed out that it also had the correct cast aluminum valve covers and chrome air cleaner, which I assume most would know is incorrect.
I do what DW posted above. Problem solved.

And just like I have defended Steve here, if someone complains on an open forum about the job you do where you have no chance to defend yourself I'll defend you.

[Roy S.]

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I do what DW posted above. Problem solved.

It's the way I often watch, it solves a lot of issues - even commercial interruption becomes a thing of the past.

[Gene M.]

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It's the way I often watch, it solves a lot of issues - even commercial interruption becomes a thing of the past.

You have a good work around. I do the simple recording and fast forward the commercials and all the bla bla. Fast forward all the foreign cars and late model “used cars”, cuts the time literally in half. Basically I end up watching half or less of the initial telecast.